Kathryn Harrison Quotes
I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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The muses visit when I'm lonely.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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It's an honor to live in and serve the great City of Los Angeles. I'm also immensely grateful for the support I've received from Ireland.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I'm living on things that excite me, be they pastry, or lobster, or love...
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People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.
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Overseas directors who want to work in Hollywood, the language barrier is not a problem. With the right talent, any director can be successful.
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
